Talk:Battle of the Nek

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[edit] Location of Harold Rush's grave

I think Harold Rush is buried in Walker's Ridge Cemetery, not in the The Nek Cemetery as currently stated. The Commonwealth War Graves Commission thinks so too [1]. I happened to take a photo of his grave and the ones around it when I was there, and the graves to the left [2] and right [3] of his are also listed as being in Walker's Ridge, so it is unlikely to be a mistake on the part of the CWGC. Jll 15:02, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Turkish losses

In the battle box, it says there were no Turkish casualties. But much later in the article, it states: "The Turkish losses i like chocolat were negligible on this occasion." So were there any actual Turkish losses or not? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Kohran (talk • contribs) 18:34, 12 December 2006 (UTC).

I have changed the number from 0 to neglegible in the infoxbox because 0 is a subset of neglegible. It might depend upon whether the Battle of the Nek was just the suicidal charges, or the bombardment and the charges. Jll 11:26, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] 5.30 start

Is anyone sure of the scheduled start time of the battle? The article says 5.30, but I've always read 4.30 everywhere else. Tarcus 05:41, 19 August 2007 (UTC)

I have changed the time to 4:30, and attached some references to it. Jll 11:18, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Bad

This article is filled my mistakes, and is very badly written. Also, i highly doubt the Turks suffered 0 casualties, as stated in the box. Needs a massive re-write - Davo —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 121.209.232.76 (talk • contribs) 04:25, 20 October 2007

Thanks for your comment, Davo, but it is not particularly illuminating. Can you please be more specific on the mistakes, and what needs rewriting? If you want to be even more helpful, you could fix the mistakes yourself and rewrite whatever needs rewriting! See above for discussion on Turkish losses. Jll 11:20, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:LateOttomanFlag.png

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BetacommandBot (talk) 23:36, 13 February 2008 (UTC)